Mox

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Mox by the numbers

Mox was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 7 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Mox

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mox. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Maxgreatest; diminutive of Maximus1,061 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Moea form of moses; drawn from water6 in the US (2017)
  • Moo13 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mox

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